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FL - Florida sex offender policy puts inhumane nightmare under bridge

View the article here 02/27/2009 By Hilde Still there . . . No, you think. That can't be. Not after two years. Makes no sense. But they're still there, a bedraggled colony of outcasts, consigned to the bowels of the Julia Tuttle Causeway -- as a matter of public policy. No, you think. That's impossible. Last winter, state officials promised they'd solve the legal conundrum and international embarrassment that forced 19 sex offenders to live like rats under the concrete support beams of a causeway bridge. The camp's still there. Only the Tuttle bridge population has since grown to 48 men, crammed together in a nether existence of the Kafka kind. Officially, of course, the state of Florida would never compel ex-offenders to live in unsanitary conditions in the dank underbelly of a freeway bridge, in tents, shacks, cars and two rusting campers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).